Oversight Is Reactive → Constitutional Abstention

This response addresses assumptions about reactive oversight timing; it does not resolve value selection, political legitimacy, or governance design failure modes.

AI-2027 Reference: Oversight committees respond after risk signals emerge, often too late to prevent deployment.

A. What AI-2027 Claims Here

Oversight is depicted as advisory and reactive, with leadership retaining discretion to proceed despite warnings.

B. Assumptions Underneath

• Oversight is post hoc.
• Safety decisions are discretionary.
• There is no binding refusal mechanism.

C. What Changes Under a Constitutional Execution Architecture

Deterministic abstention applies policy constraints at runtime, refusing execution when invariants are violated. This is architectural, not political.

D. Relevant Components

• Magenta Canon (constitutional refusal)
• Atomic ZIP Protocol (bounded execution)

E. Outcome Difference

Some classes of unsafe deployment are blocked before execution, rather than debated afterward.

F. What This Does Not Solve

• Does not determine which values to encode.
• Does not replace governance or law.
• Does not resolve contested policy questions.

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